Editing Plutocracy (section)

==Usage==
The term ''plutocracy'' is generally used as a [[pejorative]] to describe or warn against an undesirable condition.<ref>{{cite book|last1= Fiske|first1= Edward B.
 |last2                = Mallison
 |first2               = Jane
 |last3                = Hatcher
 |first3               = Dave
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=m74oSMXpnx8C
 |quote                = [...] Plutocracy and '''plutocrat''' are almost always used in a pejorative or negative sense.
 |title= Fiske 250 words every high school freshman needs to know|year= 2009 |publisher= Sourcebooks|location= [[Naperville, Illinois|Naperville, Ill]].|isbn= 9781402260797 |page= 50}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Coates|editor-first=Colin M. |title= Majesty in Canada: essays on the role of royalty|year= 2006|publisher= Dundurn|location= Toronto|isbn= 978-1550025866 |pages= 119}}</ref> Throughout history, political thinkers and philosophers have condemned plutocrats for ignoring their [[social responsibilities]], using their power to serve their own purposes and thereby increasing poverty and nurturing [[class conflict]] and corrupting societies with [[greed]] and [[hedonism]].{{failed verification|reason=Neither source makes these claims and the first isn't even about plutocracy|date=January 2022}}<ref>{{cite book|first1= Peter|last1= Viereck|title=Conservative thinkers: from John Adams to Winston Churchill|year=2006|publisher=Transaction Publishers |location= New Brunswick, New Jersey|isbn= 978-1412805261|pages= [https://archive.org/details/conservativethin00pete/page/19 19–68]|url=https://archive.org/details/conservativethin00pete/page/19}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Alexis |last=de Tocqueville |editor-first= Roger|editor-last= Boesche|editor-link= Roger Boesche|translator-last= Toupin|translator-first= James |title=Selected letters on politics and society|year=1985|publisher=University of California Press|location= Berkeley |isbn= 978-0520057517|pages=197–198}}</ref>

"[[wikt:dollarocracy|Dollarocracy]]", an anglicised adaptation of the word "plutocracy", may refer to "a specifically [[United States of America|America]]n version of plutocracy".<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Muller
 |first1               = Denis
 |date                 = 9 August 2021
 |chapter              = Democracy Under Strain
 |title                = Journalism and the Future of Democracy
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=Krg8EAAAQBAJ
 |publication-place    = Cham, Zug
 |publisher            = Springer Nature
 |pages                = 10–11
 |isbn                 = 9783030767617
 |access-date          = 13 July 2024
 |quote                = The position of the United States as a 'weak democracy' had degenerated into what [[Robert W. McChesney|McChesney]] and his colleague [[John Nichols (journalist)|John Nichols]] called a 'dollarocracy', 'a specifically American version of plutocracy' in which corporate lobbying had corrupted Congressional processes.
}} 
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